1 00:00:18,14 --> 00:00:18,93 Welcome to 2 00:00:18,94 --> 00:00:24,19 a bolder view I'm Jim Winchester along with co-host Carl Castillo who'll be joining 3 00:00:24,20 --> 00:00:24,60 us in just 4 00:00:24,61 --> 00:00:29,34 a few minutes fell in Boulder is upon us and the usual busy schedule of events and 5 00:00:29,35 --> 00:00:34,28 activities have already begun in the city this year some additional high profile 6 00:00:34,29 --> 00:00:38,76 out of the ordinary events will bring the national spotlight to Boulder including 7 00:00:38,91 --> 00:00:42,57 an upcoming Republican presidential candidate debate and 8 00:00:42,58 --> 00:00:47,73 a visit from His Holiness the Dalai Lama What do these events mean to Boulder and 9 00:00:47,78 --> 00:00:51,55 how will the city accommodate all the extra visitors Well these are just some of 10 00:00:51,56 --> 00:00:55,36 the questions that the boulder Convention Visitors Bureau executive director 11 00:00:55,37 --> 00:00:57,37 Marianne Mahoney will discuss with me 12 00:00:57,62 --> 00:01:02,05 a little later on but first when we come back Karl Castillo brings us the 13 00:01:02,06 --> 00:01:07,53 perspective from the host of these big events the University of Colorado Boulder 14 00:01:07,63 --> 00:01:08,31 Stay with us. 15 00:01:29,71 --> 00:01:31,05 My guest today is France 16 00:01:31,06 --> 00:01:35,42 a straight vice chancellor for strategic relations at the University of Colorado 17 00:01:36,01 --> 00:01:39,95 Francis thanks for joining us Oh my pleasure thank you for having me so Frances 18 00:01:40,88 --> 00:01:45,02 people may know you from your former hat that you used to wear as the exactly 19 00:01:45,03 --> 00:01:48,87 director of the boulder Economic Council and clearly you've been at university for 20 00:01:48,88 --> 00:01:52,85 several years now and I'm going to add we're not counting we're not and we're not 21 00:01:52,86 --> 00:01:57,56 going to be very happy years that you've been at the university and what I'd like 22 00:01:57,57 --> 00:02:01,84 to talk about is what is so interesting about living in a city that has 23 00:02:01,85 --> 00:02:07,05 a university it like the University of Colorado and for many of us certainly myself 24 00:02:07,06 --> 00:02:11,57 included it is not just the flatter and it's not just the open space and you know 25 00:02:11,58 --> 00:02:15,20 all the other things that the city has to offer but there's something very cool 26 00:02:15,21 --> 00:02:15,66 about having 27 00:02:15,67 --> 00:02:20,78 a university and I think about the conference of world affairs and and all these 28 00:02:21,12 --> 00:02:25,87 that the debate on the ideas and the testing of those ideas and how it plays out in 29 00:02:25,88 --> 00:02:32,23 so many ways I'd like to get your perspective on you know what what is it about 30 00:02:32,27 --> 00:02:36,21 a university like Colorado that does that and what are some examples that come to 31 00:02:36,22 --> 00:02:41,29 mind well I'll put on my old hat for economic days and tell you that when I was in 32 00:02:41,30 --> 00:02:46,85 that role we looked at other university towns because we all share in kind of 33 00:02:46,86 --> 00:02:48,98 a wonderful wealth that you have 34 00:02:48,99 --> 00:02:53,10 a university right there that churning out great young people it's bringing 35 00:02:53,11 --> 00:02:57,98 research to the community usually events those kinds of things so I just I just 36 00:02:57,99 --> 00:02:59,98 have to go back to I think you recently did 37 00:02:59,99 --> 00:03:06,10 a program on the history of Boulder and back in the day in the hundreds I guess 38 00:03:06,11 --> 00:03:06,40 there was 39 00:03:06,41 --> 00:03:10,61 a fight between us and Kenyon City as to who would actually get the university and 40 00:03:10,62 --> 00:03:14,59 we duked it out with them rode on horseback over to the legislature overnight to 41 00:03:14,60 --> 00:03:18,55 make sure that they knew the citizens that gathered up money in the city to provide 42 00:03:18,56 --> 00:03:18,83 them with 43 00:03:18,84 --> 00:03:25,42 a location to put the university and we want right Lou but. I think it has materially 44 00:03:25,43 --> 00:03:31,28 shaped the city over the years both in terms. Businesses that have started other 45 00:03:31,29 --> 00:03:35,17 see you little search that's come out but then there's just the wealth of stuff 46 00:03:35,28 --> 00:03:39,15 that goes on I can't keep track of it so yeah I have communications and first put 47 00:03:39,16 --> 00:03:42,87 out communications around that I cannot keep track of everything going on there 48 00:03:43,17 --> 00:03:49,14 right so it really does provide not only an interesting intellectual fabric Yeah 49 00:03:49,65 --> 00:03:54,61 but that was events and things going on so I could go off in any direction right 50 00:03:54,62 --> 00:03:57,02 I'm going to let you yak that I know it's 51 00:03:57,03 --> 00:04:00,92 a very broad topic but I just I know that again back to my own example I've 52 00:04:00,93 --> 00:04:04,63 casually have thought maybe I could live somewhere else in Colorado it's also 53 00:04:04,64 --> 00:04:09,09 a pretty area that has this that or that but it's that intellectual aspect of the 54 00:04:09,10 --> 00:04:14,29 factors these serious distinguished speakers the Compton world and there's 55 00:04:15,12 --> 00:04:20,71 a fest to Shakespeare fest for the Arts. All these things that are kind kind of 56 00:04:20,72 --> 00:04:25,66 constantly forcing you to engage on the latest and greatest kind of thank you and 57 00:04:25,70 --> 00:04:28,94 again it's awesome to qualify economically necessarily but I think 58 00:04:28,95 --> 00:04:30,99 a lot of people in Boulder can in 59 00:04:31,00 --> 00:04:35,07 a lot of ways more than me well so one of the things that we do is 60 00:04:35,08 --> 00:04:40,42 a study every couple of years and rich while they can and Brian Lewandowsky who 61 00:04:40,43 --> 00:04:46,20 many people are familiar with do those studies for us but the last time we looked 62 00:04:46,24 --> 00:04:51,34 the university here in Boulder contributed over a billion dollars 63 00:04:51,35 --> 00:04:55,70 a year to the state economy now that happens in a lot of ways yeah we have about 64 00:04:55,71 --> 00:04:59,63 a two point eight billion dollars research enterprise that's going on any day of 65 00:04:59,64 --> 00:05:05,14 the week and each year the researchers on the campus bring in another load of 66 00:05:05,15 --> 00:05:09,95 financing for more continued research and that sort of adds to prior years so you 67 00:05:09,96 --> 00:05:10,08 get 68 00:05:10,09 --> 00:05:15,31 a multi-year Grant quite often that takes you for three years or five years or are 69 00:05:15,32 --> 00:05:20,22 what have you and then you buy equipment and you hire people and you bring in grad 70 00:05:20,23 --> 00:05:24,50 students and the trickles out and then really all it meant departments and you got 71 00:05:24,51 --> 00:05:31,17 to eat and buy furniture or you know do whatever it is so. That's just the research 72 00:05:31,39 --> 00:05:34,74 part of the house and then of course we've got the whole education part of the 73 00:05:34,75 --> 00:05:39,95 house so there are almost thirty thousand students on the campus Yeah about five 74 00:05:39,96 --> 00:05:43,67 thousand of those are graduate students and I asked her undergraduate it and I'm 75 00:05:43,68 --> 00:05:47,36 thinking you know things trickle out in many ways I mean obviously you have spent 76 00:05:47,56 --> 00:05:53,71 companies that are here because of the university and are taking ideas that were 77 00:05:53,72 --> 00:05:56,96 tested at the university and actually monetize it and they can make 78 00:05:56,97 --> 00:06:01,13 a profit out of them but that's also what I find have been in the city of Boulder 79 00:06:01,58 --> 00:06:01,86 is that 80 00:06:01,87 --> 00:06:05,99 a lot of public policies are direct result of people who are working in the field 81 00:06:06,00 --> 00:06:09,74 of science and they say well this is what we need and we want to see it on the 82 00:06:09,75 --> 00:06:15,04 ground in our city kind of in Great Expectations and we will say I don't want 83 00:06:15,05 --> 00:06:20,08 anything less than the latest and greatest idea that that our science or whatever 84 00:06:20,09 --> 00:06:24,39 it is that our education is suggesting we need right and I think one of the key 85 00:06:24,40 --> 00:06:28,85 things about that Carl is that you know there are so many diverse points of view at 86 00:06:28,86 --> 00:06:35,44 the university so you might have somebody. Who weighs in on one side of an issue 87 00:06:35,48 --> 00:06:38,07 and somebody else who weighs on the other side from 88 00:06:38,08 --> 00:06:43,18 a research standpoint right so it could be everything from the death penalty to 89 00:06:43,19 --> 00:06:43,67 G.M. 90 00:06:44,04 --> 00:06:49,32 Is to perfectly how we use you know renewable energy and bring it into the grid or 91 00:06:49,59 --> 00:06:52,94 any of that kind of stuff how we employ new technologies as 92 00:06:52,95 --> 00:06:58,16 a human race how we observe the planet all of those things are things that we're 93 00:06:58,17 --> 00:06:58,86 thinking about as 94 00:06:58,87 --> 00:07:02,56 a local level in terms of how do we engage with those things make our community 95 00:07:02,57 --> 00:07:08,42 a better place and we have researchers on all sides of the issue who are interested 96 00:07:08,46 --> 00:07:14,53 in in gauging and bringing their information you know forward right so another 97 00:07:14,54 --> 00:07:16,58 example might be in 98 00:07:16,59 --> 00:07:20,89 a flood ICS So we just announced that we are working on forming 99 00:07:20,90 --> 00:07:24,99 a governance center for athletics because it's an area of research that our 100 00:07:25,00 --> 00:07:30,63 researchers can look into how do athletics departments and. Collegiate level govern 101 00:07:30,64 --> 00:07:34,72 themselves and what about all these things about are the athletes employees or not 102 00:07:34,73 --> 00:07:38,65 employees and how does that affect scholarships and actually getting the students 103 00:07:38,66 --> 00:07:41,16 their education right and so there's 104 00:07:41,17 --> 00:07:43,83 a lot of complicated things in that self governance it's 105 00:07:43,84 --> 00:07:48,23 a perfectly fair study Yes yeah and worrying ourselves out while we're at it right 106 00:07:48,24 --> 00:07:53,62 at the same time well you know one thing I certainly been seen living in Boulder 107 00:07:53,63 --> 00:07:53,79 for 108 00:07:53,80 --> 00:07:59,46 a while now is that there is so much involvement that that the city is part of the 109 00:07:59,72 --> 00:08:01,85 national and international conversation at 110 00:08:01,86 --> 00:08:05,61 a level that you want to expect given our population and we're increasingly part of 111 00:08:05,62 --> 00:08:09,67 these conversation like the mayor was just in the Vatican for the event on climate 112 00:08:09,68 --> 00:08:13,57 change and human trafficking and then he'll be going to represent the city at the 113 00:08:13,97 --> 00:08:18,96 at the United Nations Cup twenty one discussion on climate change and that this 114 00:08:18,97 --> 00:08:23,93 year these are large city types of events and very much the exception that boulder 115 00:08:24,55 --> 00:08:27,44 you know is a smaller city is part of it and there's obviously 116 00:08:27,45 --> 00:08:31,94 a connection to the university and then we have the university bring in the Dalai 117 00:08:31,95 --> 00:08:37,09 Lama and October we have the Republican national debate I mean to me these are 118 00:08:37,31 --> 00:08:43,88 perfect examples of. The synergy between organizations and I make sure the border 119 00:08:43,89 --> 00:08:44,16 is 120 00:08:44,17 --> 00:08:49,82 a. The player really at Tara of the conversation and influential way well I think you're 121 00:08:49,83 --> 00:08:52,43 hitting on a key point one of the things that 122 00:08:52,44 --> 00:08:57,43 a lot of people don't realize is that the University of Colorado Boulder was ranked 123 00:08:57,48 --> 00:09:02,87 last year fifteenth in the world for the citations of our scientists and that means 124 00:09:02,91 --> 00:09:06,72 when does somebody actually go and look at your research and make use of it and say 125 00:09:07,07 --> 00:09:11,27 this researcher who we respect found these results we're going to rely upon that as 126 00:09:11,28 --> 00:09:15,04 we build out further theories or that sort of thing right so that you know the 127 00:09:15,05 --> 00:09:19,00 people that are in that crowd are like Berkeley or Harvard or Stanford or Michigan 128 00:09:19,31 --> 00:09:23,40 you know so that's the crowd that the university here runs with and 129 00:09:23,41 --> 00:09:30,12 a lot of people I don't think realize that so we have. Five Nobel laureates I 130 00:09:30,13 --> 00:09:35,29 think eight MacArthur geniuses we have people serving in incredible roles in the 131 00:09:35,30 --> 00:09:41,12 White House or leading NASA centers or other things that are guiding national and 132 00:09:41,13 --> 00:09:48,01 international policy. Throughout the campus it's really fascinating Jane 133 00:09:48,02 --> 00:09:52,19 Goodall is another one who's coming to the campus soon for our fiftieth Annual 134 00:09:52,20 --> 00:09:57,98 Gammel lecture and she will be providing that lecture and meeting with students her 135 00:09:57,99 --> 00:10:02,85 Roots and Shoots groups here right locally and although she's not she didn't 136 00:10:02,86 --> 00:10:03,87 originate from C.U. 137 00:10:03,88 --> 00:10:07,95 Boulder or from the city of Boulder she's connected to 138 00:10:07,96 --> 00:10:12,21 a lot of people here it's an interesting place for her to come for you know 139 00:10:12,25 --> 00:10:15,75 researchers that are doing the same kind of thing and to give that kind of lecture 140 00:10:15,79 --> 00:10:20,46 Yeah so people like that are attracted to coming to the city of Boulder because we 141 00:10:20,47 --> 00:10:25,20 are an interesting combination of the university and the fascinating city in the 142 00:10:25,21 --> 00:10:29,51 rightful location doesn't get much better we're going to go because that it's it's 143 00:10:29,52 --> 00:10:32,76 not just this and so we're the spread of has the students but it benefits the whole 144 00:10:32,77 --> 00:10:36,35 community when you have these people come to speak in very direct ways in that 145 00:10:36,36 --> 00:10:40,32 they're allowed to come so but talk about the Republican national debate 146 00:10:40,33 --> 00:10:46,00 a very interesting significative that of course it's surprising. You know we as 147 00:10:46,01 --> 00:10:46,84 a city and as 148 00:10:46,85 --> 00:10:53,13 a university are often said to be liberal and you heard after the first time ever 149 00:10:53,14 --> 00:10:54,86 to write. In 150 00:10:54,87 --> 00:10:58,19 a so you know whether that's true or not of course there's some truth to it and 151 00:10:58,20 --> 00:11:01,75 it's interesting to dissect you know why that may be in the university's 152 00:11:01,89 --> 00:11:06,62 relationship to it but I'm sure what your thoughts are about how the Republican 153 00:11:06,63 --> 00:11:11,25 National Republican national debate at the university what that we just said at why 154 00:11:11,26 --> 00:11:14,10 is that significant for the university for both well I think it adds 155 00:11:14,11 --> 00:11:19,59 a lot in the sense that the fact that they decided to pick this location one is 156 00:11:19,63 --> 00:11:24,91 obviously for its beauty and the town that we've got here and for the university is 157 00:11:24,92 --> 00:11:28,57 a top ranked university is part of the Pac twelve and it's kind of 158 00:11:28,58 --> 00:11:32,56 a perfect setting let's put the Republican national debate there how interesting is 159 00:11:32,57 --> 00:11:34,91 that well it also provides 160 00:11:34,95 --> 00:11:40,79 a really interesting close up look for our campus and community into the Republican 161 00:11:40,80 --> 00:11:42,40 debates and it's going to be quite 162 00:11:42,41 --> 00:11:47,00 a show so when they had it in Cincinnati they had over five thousand journalists 163 00:11:47,01 --> 00:11:51,31 request wild credential as they only accommodated five hundred we think maybe we 164 00:11:51,32 --> 00:11:57,79 can squash in four hundred lots of. International eyes from 165 00:11:57,80 --> 00:12:01,72 Japan and Europe and other places who are just fascinated with our brand of 166 00:12:01,80 --> 00:12:05,40 politics in America. But we're also going to have 167 00:12:05,41 --> 00:12:08,65 a lot of things going on on campus so some of the c N.B.C. 168 00:12:09,28 --> 00:12:14,46 Producers and the television executives are going to come into classes and speak to 169 00:12:14,47 --> 00:12:18,25 our students we're going to hold some open forums to talk about the elections how 170 00:12:18,26 --> 00:12:21,49 are they working what are the issues being debated what are the issues not being 171 00:12:21,50 --> 00:12:26,11 debated and how all this works and how behind the scenes do you put one of these on 172 00:12:26,12 --> 00:12:26,29 it's 173 00:12:26,30 --> 00:12:31,48 a huge undertaking so we have that many candidates right so we're going to have students 174 00:12:31,49 --> 00:12:35,01 volunteering to stand in those the candidates while they're setting up so they can 175 00:12:35,02 --> 00:12:39,11 try to interest figure that out they are going to limit the tickets 176 00:12:39,12 --> 00:12:42,63 a lot because they do well they have so many candidates are going to have to 177 00:12:42,64 --> 00:12:47,96 accommodate and just the logistics of running that and having so many cameras tie 178 00:12:47,97 --> 00:12:50,59 into so much media there's not 179 00:12:50,60 --> 00:12:54,53 a lot of space I also decide I say that I think it's interesting and 180 00:12:54,54 --> 00:12:58,43 a positive thing but the university is doing its part to make sure that there is 181 00:12:58,44 --> 00:13:02,34 that diversity of political thought I mean you may not agree with the Republicans 182 00:13:02,35 --> 00:13:04,51 and there's obviously a lot who don't as 183 00:13:04,52 --> 00:13:09,96 a radio group or the Democrats but nobody can argue that part of keeping us fresh 184 00:13:09,97 --> 00:13:16,28 in our toes is having that debate and you know this is perfectly legal and it's 185 00:13:16,29 --> 00:13:19,35 a goal that we have at the university is to make sure that we offer those 186 00:13:19,36 --> 00:13:21,99 opportunities for debate we have 187 00:13:22,00 --> 00:13:25,94 a scholar in conservative thought and policy but we're sort of broadening our 188 00:13:26,20 --> 00:13:30,21 center for Western Civilization thought in policy to make it a broader thing in 189 00:13:30,22 --> 00:13:34,48 a vital more visiting scholars and so we can put more community events on so you 190 00:13:34,49 --> 00:13:39,25 can have somebody with completely opposing views right resenting you know 191 00:13:39,26 --> 00:13:43,81 a subject and have our students exposed to that too and able to engage in the kind 192 00:13:43,82 --> 00:13:48,31 of lively debate we really like that idea that we should be pushing that envelope 193 00:13:48,32 --> 00:13:51,43 of always questioning and being really 194 00:13:51,44 --> 00:13:55,73 a diverse community from all aspects so right you know the way you think or where 195 00:13:55,74 --> 00:14:00,53 you come from or your income level or your gender or your you know raises all of 196 00:14:00,54 --> 00:14:04,77 those things we would like to invite to the camp its crew. Recalled to maintaining 197 00:14:04,78 --> 00:14:05,77 our reputation as 198 00:14:05,78 --> 00:14:11,23 a hotbed for innovation whether that's science or not is politics so perfect well 199 00:14:11,60 --> 00:14:15,35 thank you so much rats we're out of time but I want to thank you and Carl really 200 00:14:15,36 --> 00:14:18,52 appreciate you take your time and we appreciate the partnership with the city you 201 00:14:18,53 --> 00:14:23,33 know I think we are unique in the community in that regard many communities don't 202 00:14:23,34 --> 00:14:23,58 have 203 00:14:23,59 --> 00:14:27,09 a close relationship with their university or the university with the city they're 204 00:14:27,10 --> 00:14:30,91 at loggerheads all the time so we really appreciate the city and the relationship 205 00:14:31,08 --> 00:14:36,08 that absolutely and I see there as well Great well thank you Fred thank you we've 206 00:14:36,09 --> 00:14:39,56 been speaking with Francis Draper from the university about how the university 207 00:14:39,57 --> 00:14:43,48 makes Boulder such an interesting place to look Stay with us we'll be back in 208 00:14:43,49 --> 00:14:48,17 a moment with Jim Winchester who continue this conversation with Marianne Mahoney 209 00:14:48,41 --> 00:14:50,73 from the Boulder convention's investors bureau. 210 00:15:12,24 --> 00:15:15,68 Well welcome back to older view we just heard from the University of Colorado 211 00:15:15,69 --> 00:15:20,70 Boulder on the interesting political social and cultural nature of some of the 212 00:15:20,92 --> 00:15:24,85 bigger events that are coming to Boulder this fall now we focus 213 00:15:24,86 --> 00:15:29,31 a little bit more on the practical aspects of Boulder hosting 214 00:15:29,35 --> 00:15:32,64 a presidential primary debates and the visit of 215 00:15:32,65 --> 00:15:37,86 a world religious leader joining us today is Mary and the Holy good director of the 216 00:15:37,90 --> 00:15:41,80 boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau thanks for joining us Oh my pleasure Well 217 00:15:41,81 --> 00:15:42,45 I'll tell you just 218 00:15:43,07 --> 00:15:47,56 a quick glance at all the events going on this fall it's going to be pretty busy it 219 00:15:47,57 --> 00:15:48,94 is and it's on top of 220 00:15:48,95 --> 00:15:55,21 a very very busy season already so I think we're going to equate it to the student 221 00:15:55,22 --> 00:15:59,91 move in week of August where the parents were coming in extending out just 222 00:15:59,92 --> 00:16:04,22 extending on for about two and a half weeks so it's a pretty exciting time and 223 00:16:04,23 --> 00:16:10,22 a great sunlight in Boulder so what do we see in what does this mean with these 224 00:16:10,23 --> 00:16:14,00 events and I guess first of all why don't you kind of go through some of the events 225 00:16:14,01 --> 00:16:18,07 that are coming in what does that mean as far as an impact on the community here 226 00:16:18,30 --> 00:16:25,17 well I think quite often the larger events like the Republican debate and Dalai 227 00:16:25,18 --> 00:16:26,94 Lama is really focused on 228 00:16:26,95 --> 00:16:33,79 a couple busy days of the week but we also have the Tech Stars founder con that's 229 00:16:33,80 --> 00:16:38,10 coming early in between those two events we've got The Beekeeper's Association 230 00:16:38,11 --> 00:16:40,83 coming in we've got a Burgundy wine festival coming so it's 231 00:16:40,84 --> 00:16:42,30 a very very busy month of 232 00:16:42,31 --> 00:16:47,55 a lot of offerings so how that impacts people in Boulder is they may see 233 00:16:47,56 --> 00:16:51,26 a few more people in the restaurants I think that that's where they see people and 234 00:16:51,27 --> 00:16:54,95 that can't hurt obviously anytime you get outside money outside people coming into 235 00:16:54,96 --> 00:16:58,13 Boulder spending money it's great for the local economy well it's great for the 236 00:16:58,14 --> 00:17:00,25 local economy and then they decide they've got 237 00:17:00,26 --> 00:17:03,42 a flavor from Boulder and they probably come back and probably come back on 238 00:17:03,43 --> 00:17:10,01 vacation so that's the long term effect of this exposure let's talk about an event 239 00:17:10,02 --> 00:17:15,89 that will specifically have. A huge spotlight on Boulder obviously the presidential 240 00:17:15,90 --> 00:17:22,55 primary for the Republicans debate coming in October yes the spotlight for the 241 00:17:22,56 --> 00:17:28,19 entire nation will be on the University of Colorado Boulder we just heard 242 00:17:28,20 --> 00:17:32,30 a little while ago in the earlier segment as to kind of why they've reached out to 243 00:17:32,31 --> 00:17:38,03 a Republican constituency what does this do in terms of tourism and maybe opening 244 00:17:38,04 --> 00:17:43,31 up some minds and some perceptions that people had about Boulder being this town 245 00:17:43,54 --> 00:17:48,11 that only welcomes very progressive thinking well and I think that there might be 246 00:17:48,16 --> 00:17:53,20 those press preconceived ideas about Baltar and this will give because there's 247 00:17:53,21 --> 00:17:59,37 three hundred journalists in town over this this debate time frame so it will be an 248 00:17:59,38 --> 00:18:02,80 offering to sell Balder in a different showcase to 249 00:18:02,81 --> 00:18:09,51 a different audience that may open up that conversation what we have created here 250 00:18:09,52 --> 00:18:12,72 is a really unique active lifestyle 251 00:18:13,17 --> 00:18:18,83 a sophisticated restaurant same active downtown all of those things are perceptions 252 00:18:18,84 --> 00:18:22,62 that people may have been close to when I pass go let me ask you this what was your 253 00:18:22,63 --> 00:18:27,65 first reaction when you heard Republican debate coming to the University of 254 00:18:27,66 --> 00:18:32,58 Colorado Bill I said yes. We had we had 255 00:18:32,59 --> 00:18:38,35 a big campaign in Denver during the first election of Barack Obama and the 256 00:18:38,36 --> 00:18:42,79 Democratic convention in Denver sure and the whole time in Boulder we were saying 257 00:18:43,08 --> 00:18:47,74 by would be great if the Republicans came so even with the Republican bid for the 258 00:18:47,75 --> 00:18:53,16 convention we were very very excited but to have this in our town is 259 00:18:53,17 --> 00:18:57,54 a great showcase for Boulder. A campus 260 00:18:57,59 --> 00:19:03,08 a college campus in general does tend by stereotype to be very progressive very 261 00:19:03,09 --> 00:19:09,14 liberal any concerns about students being overly vocal in not necessarily welcoming 262 00:19:09,26 --> 00:19:13,46 Republicans in this whole scenes of older. Or is that not necessarily concerned 263 00:19:13,99 --> 00:19:18,83 students not so much I think that they're still in that formation of how they think 264 00:19:18,84 --> 00:19:21,59 and feel I think we will see 265 00:19:21,83 --> 00:19:26,73 a really vol call public in student groups coming out which will be really good 266 00:19:26,74 --> 00:19:31,71 just to showcase but I think also some of our citizens might get involved in those 267 00:19:31,72 --> 00:19:37,34 conversations too and be part of kind of being part of the crowd I mean so many 268 00:19:37,35 --> 00:19:42,68 people want tickets to go to this this great opportunity they want to have that 269 00:19:42,69 --> 00:19:48,00 opportunity but again everybody is very very curious to to this conversation with 270 00:19:48,01 --> 00:19:49,68 just equally How does 271 00:19:50,09 --> 00:19:53,90 a city the size of Boulder handle like you mentioned three hundred journalists 272 00:19:54,57 --> 00:19:55,48 a lot of T.V. 273 00:19:55,49 --> 00:19:59,73 Cameras the spotlight essentially not only on this debate but there's bound to be 274 00:19:59,74 --> 00:20:00,67 stories that will go 275 00:20:00,68 --> 00:20:05,53 a little bit further and talk about the actual atmosphere in Boulder and some of 276 00:20:05,54 --> 00:20:10,99 the challenges that we have how do you comedy all those folks in terms of logistics 277 00:20:11,37 --> 00:20:16,49 traffic we talk about hotels ino it in all the above so we try to do pre-planning 278 00:20:16,53 --> 00:20:21,17 so in meeting with university Colorado Boulder What lessons did they learn from 279 00:20:21,21 --> 00:20:26,28 when they went to play flint for the first of it OK so we learned from their VESA 280 00:20:27,19 --> 00:20:31,96 pre-planning of how we can assist those journalists and advance to help them find 281 00:20:32,00 --> 00:20:37,33 hotel accommodations so working with see you working with the Republican National 282 00:20:37,34 --> 00:20:41,90 Committee getting kind of that media advisory Here's some information you may need 283 00:20:41,91 --> 00:20:46,05 ahead of time. However everybody when you're a journalist you don't need 284 00:20:46,06 --> 00:20:49,73 a press pass you are you have a press pass you don't necessarily need 285 00:20:49,74 --> 00:20:52,57 a film permit you can film anywhere because you're 286 00:20:52,58 --> 00:20:55,86 a journalist there so that takes the ground out of 287 00:20:56,16 --> 00:21:01,45 a little bit of control that we sometimes would like to have to really how can we 288 00:21:01,46 --> 00:21:07,96 accommodate as best as possible so it's all hands on deck all hands on deck it will 289 00:21:07,97 --> 00:21:10,90 be a one night event but obviously it will last 290 00:21:10,91 --> 00:21:14,29 a couple days can you compare this relatively to say like 291 00:21:14,30 --> 00:21:15,68 a football game that it's not 292 00:21:15,69 --> 00:21:21,55 a fair comparison it's not quite it's more like that so you move in where the 293 00:21:21,56 --> 00:21:25,39 parents come in they're staying they're not quite ready to give up their child once 294 00:21:25,40 --> 00:21:29,57 they move them into the dorm so they're staying another day or so so they're 295 00:21:29,58 --> 00:21:36,35 staying in hotels where not all the hotels are fall every football weekend. The 296 00:21:36,39 --> 00:21:41,21 the. Crew that's coming to film the debate they'll move in 297 00:21:41,22 --> 00:21:45,40 a week ahead of time to do all their logistics and then there's the morning show 298 00:21:45,41 --> 00:21:51,03 after so you know all of the what did they learn last night will be recap the 299 00:21:51,04 --> 00:21:54,26 following morning for all the morning shows so we'll see this as 300 00:21:54,27 --> 00:21:58,16 a multi day week of and. Let's move along 301 00:21:58,17 --> 00:22:03,05 a little bit to some of these other special events right we have the regular 302 00:22:03,06 --> 00:22:06,41 routine here in Boulder that folks are used to in the full brightness of the fall 303 00:22:06,42 --> 00:22:13,16 and many other different events you mention text or. Come right back on right 304 00:22:13,33 --> 00:22:16,73 explain a little bit about that in when that is and what makes this such 305 00:22:16,74 --> 00:22:23,11 a unique. Way to promote Boulder Well Tech Stars was started in Boulder and many 306 00:22:23,12 --> 00:22:27,65 people that have been around kind of know how vibrant that community is that Tech 307 00:22:27,66 --> 00:22:34,49 Stars rots. In to live in our community to learn from the brightest and the 308 00:22:34,50 --> 00:22:41,21 best and now they have I believe fifteen tech star cities and they're bringing all 309 00:22:41,22 --> 00:22:45,95 of those smart business people that have been through Tech Stars into our community 310 00:22:45,96 --> 00:22:48,01 about six hundred attendees so that's 311 00:22:48,02 --> 00:22:54,24 a large conference for Boulder but also the vibrant sea of these start up people 312 00:22:54,25 --> 00:22:59,84 with the energy that they have. Actually come back to base which is Boulder 313 00:22:59,85 --> 00:23:05,77 Colorado. Eating in the restaurants and special events and really collaborating 314 00:23:05,78 --> 00:23:12,53 with one another so great what. Old are right now the fact that we are. 315 00:23:13,70 --> 00:23:15,37 Hazing if you will of 316 00:23:15,38 --> 00:23:19,94 a lot of startups and tech stars kind of feeds right into that image and how 317 00:23:19,98 --> 00:23:26,60 beneficial was that working well people come through text arse or other. They've 318 00:23:26,64 --> 00:23:29,93 been on either coast possibly to take 319 00:23:29,94 --> 00:23:36,00 a little startup or create something new and then it's Boulder is 320 00:23:36,01 --> 00:23:40,77 a petri dish they almost get to experiment with a lot of collaboration and 321 00:23:40,78 --> 00:23:46,61 a lot of support so you know people move out of the Mountain View area Palo Alto 322 00:23:46,62 --> 00:23:50,55 area or outside Boston and move into 323 00:23:50,59 --> 00:23:56,99 a very small community that they get to know people pretty quickly and the sense of 324 00:23:57,00 --> 00:24:03,96 collaboration versus competition has been touted of why Boulder is so exciting to 325 00:24:03,97 --> 00:24:09,55 do business there is Boulder reputation of becoming the next Palo Alto are we 326 00:24:09,56 --> 00:24:14,86 already there well I think the tech people will tell you that they are there I 327 00:24:14,87 --> 00:24:18,70 don't know we have to talk to our friends at the Economic Council as far as the 328 00:24:18,71 --> 00:24:22,99 venture capital if we're matching what's happening in Palo Alto we're probably 329 00:24:23,00 --> 00:24:24,97 lagging in that area but it's 330 00:24:24,98 --> 00:24:30,77 a compliment to the aerospace engineer at the cleantech and community they natural 331 00:24:30,78 --> 00:24:35,88 and organic skum unity that we already have the active lifestyle manufacturers I 332 00:24:35,89 --> 00:24:36,85 mean it's it's 333 00:24:36,86 --> 00:24:43,06 a pretty dynamic addition to what we have. Moving on to another event which is 334 00:24:43,07 --> 00:24:43,80 already gotten 335 00:24:43,81 --> 00:24:49,05 a lot of headlines I believe is already sold out the Dalai Lama visits. What what 336 00:24:49,06 --> 00:24:55,04 again was the reaction when you heard that this was coming and how unique of an 337 00:24:55,05 --> 00:24:59,86 opportunity is this once again to position Boulder as this place that has all these 338 00:24:59,87 --> 00:25:01,72 diverse events I think it's 339 00:25:01,73 --> 00:25:08,46 a great compliment to our community being as forward 340 00:25:08,47 --> 00:25:12,56 thinking as Boulder is sometimes it seems like we're not 341 00:25:12,73 --> 00:25:19,10 a religious community but we're very spiritual community and I think bringing Dalai 342 00:25:19,11 --> 00:25:25,58 Lama who the campus really Marius that marries that to our community it 343 00:25:25,59 --> 00:25:26,25 serves 344 00:25:26,29 --> 00:25:33,10 a broader purpose. Lomis been close before these been here awhile before but 345 00:25:33,11 --> 00:25:39,92 again how that compliments the people in Boulder to connect back to 346 00:25:39,97 --> 00:25:43,58 spirituality and again in the world why for 347 00:25:43,59 --> 00:25:49,51 a people I'd never thought about Boulder Colorado I met in that spiritual world 348 00:25:50,49 --> 00:25:52,88 one quick final question here we have just about 349 00:25:52,89 --> 00:25:59,65 a minute left. What are potential. All of this attention is is it 350 00:25:59,85 --> 00:26:04,03 a concern that we're growing too quickly I mean we hear that sometimes in the 351 00:26:04,04 --> 00:26:09,56 community what what are some some fallbacks or some just issues that you must be 352 00:26:09,57 --> 00:26:11,28 very careful about when we have 353 00:26:11,49 --> 00:26:15,71 a lot of these folks coming I think that traffic is 354 00:26:15,72 --> 00:26:22,54 a concern for people. Three hundred people we handle three hundred people groups 355 00:26:22,67 --> 00:26:26,59 every week when our community death notices they're meeting with in 356 00:26:26,60 --> 00:26:32,16 a hotel eating in our restaurants downtown so the three hundred journalists don't 357 00:26:32,17 --> 00:26:36,83 concern me I think it's the perception of magnifying in around 358 00:26:36,87 --> 00:26:40,45 a specific of that we have. I'd 359 00:26:40,46 --> 00:26:45,84 a few more people visiting football weekend than we will have around the Republican 360 00:26:45,85 --> 00:26:50,20 convention or around course of that center when the Dalai Lama's here but I can I 361 00:26:50,21 --> 00:26:55,56 think see you will do the outstanding job and lay in all of that as they always do 362 00:26:56,08 --> 00:27:00,01 all right Marian thank you so much for joining us and that wraps up this edition of 363 00:27:00,05 --> 00:27:04,97 a bolder view remember lots of activity coming this fall to the city of Boulder now 364 00:27:04,98 --> 00:27:08,41 for an odd demand stream of this show and to see all past 365 00:27:08,45 --> 00:27:13,52 a bolder view programs please visit Boulder Channel eight dot com Our thanks to 366 00:27:13,66 --> 00:27:17,63 Marion Mahoney from the Convention and Visitors Bureau into vice chancellor Francis 367 00:27:17,64 --> 00:27:18,57 Draper from C.U. 368 00:27:18,58 --> 00:27:22,80 Boulder on behalf of Carl Castillo I'm Jim Winchester with the city of Boulder.